Dark Knight Director Sued By Batman

Andy Chalk

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Dark Knight Director Sued By Batman


Pow! Sock! Oooof! Christopher Nolan [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/] is being sued... by Batman.

Batman is suing Nolan and production company Warner Bros. [http://www.warnerbros.com/] for royalties from the 2008 blockbuster The Dark Knight, the mega-hit movie that re-chronicled Batman's first encounter with the Joker. But why would Batman sue over his most successful movie ever? And do fictional characters even have legal standing in U.S. courts?

The twist in the case is that Batman isn't the Caped Crusader at all, but rather a city in Turkey that goes by the same name, and Huseyin Kalkan, the mayor of Batman, claims Nolan and Warner used the name without permission. "There is only one Batman in the world," Kalkan said. "The American producers used the name of our city without informing us."

To bolster his case, and what will presumably be a demand for a hefty piece of the action, Kalkan is blaming the movie for several unsolved murders in the city, as well as a high suicide rate among the city's females. He also claims that former citizens of Batman have had trouble registering businesses abroad, and is preparing evidence to prove that the city of Batman predates the creation of the World's Greatest Detective, who first appeared in Variety [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_Comics] points out, The Dark Knight's $1 billion box office take may have something to do with it.

Obviously, Kalkan's efforts aren't expected to go anywhere, but nonetheless the case is reportedly being closely monitored by civic leaders in the former Soviet republic of Spidermanistan.


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Amnestic

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Pow! Sock! Oooof! The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan is being sued... by Batman.
Surely they should be sueing DC rather than the director of the film.

although as Variety points out, The Dark Knight's $1 billion box office take may have something to do with it.
Oh. Nevermind then. It's about the money.
 

GyroCaptain

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Yeah, when their logo indicates a date of 1955? 1955>1939 -> MATH FAIL. Here I was thinking the US had a monopoly on frivolous lawsuits, but this is one of the most frivolous I've ever seen.
 

Gildedtongue

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Gul Torgo said:
Wait til the city of San Diego catches wind of this Carmen Sandiego person.
They'd need to find her first. I mean, she's jumping all around the country, the world, the solar system, even time itself. Curse you, I want my $18 back!

Anyhoo. Wow, that's a rather... silly lawsuit.
 

NeedAUserName

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Seriously, these guys didn't know that a Batman Comic existed, and considering this is the second in the series, I'm gonna say they are just trying to take some of the Dark Knights profits in an easy cash case... even though any sane jury/judge wouldn't give this case the time of day, and it would be thrown out of court.
 

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Malygris said:
...the case is reportedly being closely monitored by civic leaders in the former Soviet republic of Spidermanistan.
Am I the only one who found this hilarious?

And yes, this is totally a money grab. What will those zany turks think of next?
 

Break

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To bolster his case, and what will presumably be a demand for a hefty piece of the action, Kalkan is blaming the movie for several unsolved murders in the city, as well as a high suicide rate among the city's females.
...Wow. I mean, just... Wow. This is the true height of "compensation culture".